Floods and Flying: As the old saying goes, stuff happens. My wife and I got home from a little Labor Day wedding jaunt close to 8 p.m. on the Wednesday after. We had heard that central Pennsylvania was getting a lot of rain, but it turned out to be a lot more than anyone bargained for. When I checked the backyard the water in the creek was already within 3 feet of the grass, and it was still raining. Since it was already 3 feet above the record high level I was a bit concerned and moved some of the irreplaceable shop equipment upstairs—the old, old Atari 400 computer that drives the foam cutter, some file drawers and tool drawers, and some boxes of engines, including my 35 Combat engine collection.
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